fairies

In traditional folklore, nonhuman, quasisupernatural but not divine beings who dwell on this planet. Fairies, elves, gnomes, dwarfs, brownies, trolls, and pixies are familiar names. While not strictly religious, belief in fairies is interesting and important for showing that the sense of wonder that is one source of religion can have other manifestations than the reverence of GOD alone. In some religious mythologies, one fi nds not only HEAVENS above and HELLS beneath, but also "horizontal" wonderlands somewhere on our plane. For example, Avalon, the Isles of the Blessed, and the Eastern grottoes of immortals, are comparable to Fairyland.